According to ridiculous feminists, all of the male writers below are misogynists!
- David Foster Wallace
- Charles Dickens
- Ernest Hemingway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Vladimir Nabokov
- James Joyce
- J. D. Salinger
- Philip Roth
- Thomas Mann (gay)
- Jay McInerey
- Jack Kerouac
- D. H. Lawrence
- Henry Miller
- Norman Mailer
- Charles Bukowski
- Eugene O’Neill
- Jonathan Franzen
- Tennessee Williams (gay)
- John Updike
- John Cheever (gay)
- Ken Kesey
- George RR Martin
- JRR Tolkien
- Philip K. Dick
- Saul Bellow
Apparently One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is racist and misogynist! Who knew?
Looking over the list, I don’t see many misogynists on there. Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Charles Bukowski obviously qualify, but I’m not sure about the rest. Updike would seem to qualify based on what little I have read of him. Three authors are gay and would seem to be immune from such a charge.
I’ll discuss some of the books I’ve read below.
Philip Roth has been widely accused of misogyny, but I read Portnoy’s Complaint and Goodbye Columbus and didn’t think either was misogynistic. Portnoy’s Complaint is about a sex crazed 19 year old Jewish boy who spends most of his time trying to scam women and girls into bed. The rest of the time he’s mostly jerking off. At one point he jerks off in the meat his Mom is going to cook for dinner that night. He’s a bit of a creep but a lot of young men that age are like that.
A lot of feminists are horrified by this book, but so what? Feminists get triggered by everything, even if you look at them wrong. Feminists with a chip on their shoulder, a persecution complex, and a victim addiction who spend most of their time looking for things to get angry at and offended by.
The principal complaint against Roth is that he draws lousy women characters. I’ve got some news for you. Most male writers don’t know how to draw female characters very well. You write about what you know. Most men know what it’s like to be a man but don’t know what it’s like to be a woman. That’s hardly worth a preposterous charge of misogyny unless you are a paranoid feminist.
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller are odiously misogynistic. Miller is one of those misogynistic womanizers. He loves women in a sense but he doesn’t seem to like or respect them very much and he treats them like crap. Cunt is one of the most commonly used words in the book. Nevertheless, both are great books and the writing is gorgeous in both.
Mailer’s An American Dream is a misogynistic novel. The lead character Rojack stabs his wife to death and then rapes and sodomizes the maid, who appears to enjoy this treatment. This book was written exactly three years after Mailer was arrested for attempted murder when he stabbed his wife with a knife in the early hours of the morning at a dinner party.
Updike’s To the End of Time features a misogynistic main character who appears to be a stand-in for Updike. He’s a most unpleasant man and he treats women terribly.
Bukowski’s fiction is obviously misogynistic, and Bukowski was a misogynist himself. There is a videotape of an interview with him where he gets mad at his live-in girlfriend and kicks her!
Wallace is accused of misogyny not based on his fiction, which is apparently fine, but on his troubled relationship with a girlfriend. He engaged in physical fights with her, stalked her while she took her son to school and climbed up a wall to climb into her window after she threw him out. He contemplated hiring someone to kill her, but so what? Lots of people contemplate lots of things. It doesn’t matter what we think about except to feminists who believe in thought crimes.
I don’t know if his behavior means he was a misogynist. A lot of men fight with their girlfriends and wives and some even hurt or kill them. Even hurting or killing your girlfriend or wife doesn’t mean you hate women, despite feminist bullshittery. I would agree that it means you hate her. But does it mean you hate women? In some cases, yes, woman-killers do hate women, but in many other cases they don’t at all. Instead they just hate the female lover they attacked.
This is one of the principal errors that all feminists make in their preposterous obsession with misogyny, something they spend all their time looking far and wide for. Can you spell persecution complex?
The rest of the men are all innocent. I’ve never read Thomas Mann or Jay McInerney, Jonathon Franzen, Philip K. Dick, or George RR Martin, but I’ve never heard anything incriminating about them. I’ve read the rest of them and never saw anything misogynistic about any of them.
The only truth here is that as on most every other subject, feminists are completely out of their minds.
